Free Server 2008 Training: Windows Deployment Services

By Ben Culbertson
February 26, 2009

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Operating System(s):: Server 2008

Welcome to Client Imaging and Deployment. Today we’ll start with a quick introduction to WDS, which I think will become an important feature for many of you working with Server 2008.

Now let me start with a little warning; Microsoft does not have good documentation on WDS, and it even took me a while to gain a good understanding of how it functions. But what I’ve learned is that there is one key secret to making WDS work. And if you understand this one key element then Windows Deployment Services will be really easy for you and you’re going to really like it.

After covering a bit of theory and terminology, we’ll walk through the Initial WDS Server Configuration and then we’ll capture and deploy a Vista/Server 2008 image.

Here are all the details of this video:

Intro to WDS — how WDS works and how it can help you save money and time
Installing the WDS Role — the step-by-step procedures and what you need to know (including the secret that you need to understand to make WDS work for you)
Configuring WDS — using our Verde Petra scenario I’ll demonstrate how to configure WDS
Boot Image Import — next we’ll add a Boot Image for deployment so you can get an idea of how this is done
Create Capture Boot Image — then we’ll create and add a capture Boot Image from the Deployment Image we created in the previous step
Create an Image Group — now we’re going to create an image group and then add the install image to the server
Capture an Image — next I’ll demonstrate how to capture an image from a reference computer using the command line and we’ll also go through the BIOS setup for PXE
Deploying WDS — we’ll finish off with a demonstration of how easy it is to deploy a particular image to a machine

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About the Author

Ben Culbertson (MCT, MCSA, MCDBA, CIW, A+, Net+, MOS) has taught thousands of people in the Chicagoland area, and brings ten years of training, web, print, and network consulting experience to the table. Serving a two year tour of duty as an inner city high school teacher, he motivated at-risk students to achieve excellence and learned how to teach high level concepts in a rubber-meets-the-road fashion. He is also the Technical Editor and webmaster of ReliefJournal.com, a quarterly literary journal, and the Editor-In-Chief for Coach’s Midnight Diner, an annual genre anthology.

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Posted by Vikram Singh on January 5, 2012, 6:42 am

Thanx it’s really helpful for me.

Free Server 2008 Training: Windows Deployment Services